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Palmer absent from parliamentary votes

A day after declaring he would be a full-time politician, businessman Clive Palmer did not take part in the first eight votes of the new parliament.

Federal parliament held its first full business day under new Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday, when the government introduced laws to scrap the carbon and mining taxes.

Mr Palmer's Palmer United Party (PUP) had campaigned to remove the carbon tax and repay carbon tax payments from big polluting companies for their first year of liabilities.

"I'll be abstaining from voting on the carbon tax and the mining tax repeal bills, and the reason I wasn't in parliament this morning was that they were introduced," Mr Palmer told reporters in Canberra.

"I don't think I need to abstain. However, I don't want to have a perception from anybody that I'm acting in the wrong way."

Mr Palmer's company Queensland Nickel is refusing to pay a $6.2 million carbon tax bill and is challenging the tax in the courts.

The first votes of the new parliament were procedural, after Labor attempted to force Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to explain reports that the government is negotiating a new people-swap deal with Indonesia. Labor also moved a motion of dissent in new Speaker Bronwyn Bishop.